Gordon Moore Quotes

You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

My eyesight is not good. You guys will see, in games you'll watch, I will have times where I don't see the catcher very well, especially in low-light conditions. I can get to about 20/40. That's about as good as they can get me with the stigmatisms and stuff I have going on.

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

I see better today than I did three or five years ago.

My eyes have been sensitive to light since the fifth grade. Without glasses I can't see the next hurdle.

I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

I'm blind without my glasses.

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

I like to have glasses for day and night.

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

The subject we talk of is the eye of England: if there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavor to take them off; he would be a strange oculist, who should pull out the eye.”

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

I don't feel I can get used to my face wearing glasses... more than one pair of glasses, or any one pair until a cataclysmic, cosmic event causes me to get a new pair.

I've been very open about this cornea disease that I have.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.